Obiano Tasks Security Agencies On Protection Of Public Facilities, Critical Infrastructure

The State government says it has equipped officers and men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and other security agencies in the State, including the community vigilante groups for better preservation and protection of public property across the State. Governor Willie Obiano who announced this during a one day campaign on preservation and protection of public assets and critical infrastructure at Neni in Anaocha Local government Area, organized by the National Orientation Agency, maintained that his administration has witnessed the vandalization of over one hundred and twenty transformers in various communities and cities across the State within a space of time.
Governor Obiano who was represented by his Senior Special Assistant on Power and Domestic water Development, Mr Victor Meju, charged security agencies in the State to expedite action on preservation and protection of public infrastructure, pointing out that community leaders should also take the protection of government facilities domiciled in their areas as their responsibility.
He emphasized that his government has donated over four hundred brand new transformers to various communities in the State with a view to boosting electricity supply, calling on communities that have not installed their transformer, to do so immediately and charged the federal government to urgently set up a committee with the sole responsibility of replacing and maintaining vandalized assets.
While thanking the leadership of the National Orientation Agency in the State for organizing the event, the Governor also advocated the enactment of a bye-law on preservation and protection of both public and community development infrastructure in the country, calling on the people to always expose the vandals who he said live among them.
In an address, the State Director of the National Orientation Agency, Mr Charles Nwoji, called on the people to always guard jealously the public assets around them, such as Schools, hospitals, transformers, telecommunication equipment among others.
The President-General of Neni Town Union, Chief Chukwudi Mbonu, who was represented by the first Vice President-General of the Town Union, Chief John Uzoezie called for a collective effort in the preservation and protection of public infrastructure advising the people to desist from making bonfires on the road and dumping of debris inside flood channels.